Kangmin Lee

You just got to stop.

Yeah.

I think if you actually look at the data, women in America are much more left-wing than the women in Korea.

It's just that the men in Korea are just so much more right-wing.

But it's like most women in Korea, they don't hate men.

If you go to Korea, you're just going to see couples everywhere.

Everywhere you go.

Yeah, it's gonna be a guy and a girl holding hands be really lovey-dovey You cannot escape it even in the winter time maybe a winter time the Christmas time.

It's romantic.

It's nice But when I was there this past month, there's just couples everywhere comes everywhere, but no children and that's the problem like they're not getting married because

They essentially have the benefits of traditional marriage, right?

They spend time together, they're in love, they have sex, all this stuff.

But they don't commit to each other.

Because when they commit to each other, there's still this understanding in Korean culture that when you get married, that the woman is the one primarily taking care of the children.

But, you know, the woman don't want to give up their careers.

And so because of that, they delay marriage, and then they delay childbearing, and so they're just not having children.

And if you look at the stats, too, that...

only two percent of childbirths in south korea are outside of wedlock whereas in america it's like 40 to 50 percent so um this idea of child bearing is still traditional in korea where it's like okay if we're gonna have children we need to do it within marriage but they don't want to have children because they it's going to be an impediment to their career so that's why they delay marriage they delay having children so if you look at the gender divide in korea it's not like

Women are out there like, I hate women.

Women are not like, I hate men.